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by ceceron 5y ago
Still, it is a bias which is funny given the title of this blog.
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by ceceron 5y ago
As far as I'm inclined to agree, that causation can't be easily defined, I believe that your cycling argument is incorrect. Not only because of what the @dentalperson wrote below (they are completely right that there is a crucial
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by ceceron 5y ago
Have taught first year undergrads. Highly recommended experience: 5 stars. C definitely has many flaws, but I wouldn't say complexity is one of them. I wulld rather say it's too simple and one has to add the complexity all by the
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by ceceron 5y ago
I was a volunteer in the place helping parents of autistic children. Sure, there are autistic people able to study / work / write books (I knew at least one), but for many just a gentle touch makes their nervous system short circu
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by ceceron 5y ago
Always happy to hear good news about KDE. Recently I've installed OpenSuSe Tumbleweed for my wife (previously she was using macos and she is not 'technical') and it's great, even better than I remembered. Stable, customi
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by ceceron 5y ago
That's why I (a Polish person) love Czech people - we can have a great fun just by speaking on the most mundane things. Every (even the most boring) Czech sentence is funnier than the best joke spoken in English ;)
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by ceceron 6y ago
We can try to build a wooden bridge made from him. If we succeeded it would be a proof he is a wood, therefore he floats, so basically he is a witch.
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by ceceron 6y ago
Thanks. It's a great piece of writing!
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by ceceron 6y ago
I've been always taught that classical (Newtonian) physics doesn't have to be interpreted as deterministic. However, the reason was simpler than the lack of the "infinite precision". Basically, some classical systems can
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by ceceron 6y ago
Fair enough, the comparison itself may be useful as an "intuition pump" to start the discussion.
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by ceceron 6y ago
Sure. It makes sense, law should be protecting public health - it is a fair assumption. Now, there is a disagreement on the methods, whether making drugs more accessible would have a positive impact on the public health. A common basic argu
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by ceceron 6y ago
It is a valid point, that should be taken into consideration in the discussions on the topic, but it doesn't validate the original argument. The proponent of the "reversed argument" may argue, that, even if we can't ban
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by ceceron 6y ago
Sorry for sounding nit-picky, I didn't want to undermine your argument as I agree with you. The only problem I find is that, even if 1) and 2) are true, and you are talking to someone in group 2), it doesn't entail that the person
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by ceceron 6y ago
Sure, you're perfectly right, this is a different point polarizing the discussions. There is a lot of misunderstandings around modalities (should/has to; is possible/is necessary) in common arguments: - substance is legal = t
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by ceceron 6y ago
ad 1) that is a disputable assumption, but sure ad 2) as you've said - it's interpreted as "alcohol should be legal". Such interpretation is arguable, but still it makes sense under some views on ethics. ad 3) this doesn
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by ceceron 6y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert in the matter and, therefore, I won't share any opinion whether magic mushrooms should be legal or not. What bothers me is the way people argue about such problems. The common argument goes like thi
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by ceceron 6y ago
I've read this twitter thread, thanks. I don't know whether @ScienceVet is an expert, I don't know them and they don't use a real checkable name, but I trust that you wouldn't mislead me. The biggest issue for me is
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by ceceron 6y ago
I'm mainly a Firefox user, but there are two cases when I fall back to another browser (Brave, in my case): - I have to maintain two MS Teams account for the professional reasons. I use one account in the electron app, one in the Brave
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by ceceron 6y ago
As a philosophy graduate I would say that learning philosophy solely from books would be a very ambitious / dangerous attempt. The philosophical books can be very persuasive for the beginner in the field, leading to many misconceptions
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by ceceron 6y ago
This is not a proper analogy. The government money comes from taxes, they are not doing charity out of their funds.
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by ceceron 6y ago
Praying doesn't exclude a more "physical" action. When a catholic is praying for something, they should actively pursue the goal. The New Testament (James 2:14-26) states it explicitly. "Faith without deeds is dead"
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by ceceron 6y ago
It's very difficult, but important thing, to express abstract things in a correct, yet still understandable way, so "kudos" for trying :) You make a good point, however: 1) > And that designing an entire language around th
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by ceceron 6y ago
> The first advantage to just copy-pasting is that the snippet author might update it (e.g. if he finds a faster/safer way to do the one thing his package does), and you don't have to do anything. First, please don't copy
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by ceceron 6y ago
> The sorts of confusion seen here are quite common in philosophy, which has great difficulty staying grounded to facts of experience, something I think Wittgenstein complained of. I have to comment this, being myself a multi-class chara
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by ceceron 6y ago
> It's all a matter of how wrong you want to be, and what information you want to use for deduction. If you see a humanoid approaching you, do you start with "that is a human (99.99% certainty)" or "that is a man or w
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by ceceron 6y ago
MiniZinc uses the \/, /\, ->, <-> as the logical connectives.
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by ceceron 6y ago
Prolog implements Definite Clause Grammars[0] which can express context-sensitive grammars. In Prolog there is a simple DSL to express DCGs, but in fact DCG just uses Prolog runtime features. I don't believe there is aanother general p
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by ceceron 6y ago
> No, the entire point of critiquing the author's qualifications is to break apart the idea that, because the author is well-spoken, they are therefore correct or even reasonable. If the author had declined to publish a miniature bi
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by ceceron 6y ago
Sure, but money is a very effective motivational power. If something is expensive, there is a higher need to produce an alternative.
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by ceceron 6y ago
> We shouldn't be charitable to racism, sexism, delusional religious beliefs, or fascism; they are too harmful to the world. In this case, you're asking me to be charitable to a sexist article whose author does not justify thei

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